GOP Scandal: Barbour Had Controlling Interest in Phone Jamming Firm

[elehhhhna]

By Paul Kiel - May 3, 2006, 10:55 AM
Last Friday, the AP reported that GOP big-wig Haley Barbour was one of the investors in GOP Marketplace, the consulting firm central to the New Hampshire phone jamming.

But a closer read of the company's founding documents show a much deeper connection than Barbour admitted to the AP. He had direct control over the company's management.


http://www.tpmmuckraker.com/

[eleny]

1. ooops!

[Norquist Nemesis]

2. um, er, uh...well

Look over there! <insert video of GOP scattering cockroaches>

[BR_Parkway]

3. hahahahahah - throw another one in jail - we may get some use

out of those No Bid Halliburton internment camps after all - I don't think there's enough prison space to currently house all these crooks!

[Supersedeas]

4. lemme guess: another "know-nothing" executive like Kenny Boy

[BOSSHOG]

5. Are you attempting to impugn the integrity of my Governor?

Good for you. Hell, good ole boy haley didn't know nothing bout nothing. Hell he was only in charge, what do expect you of him? Responsibility? Accountability? Fucking libruls, always stirring up shit.

[mod mom]

6. What medal will he earn?

[Bozita]

7. I think I'm smelling rotting fish

[PRETZEL]

8. I didn't get that impression,

these types of business arrangements are pretty common. I spent 10 years in commercial mortgages and saw this alot. It seemed to me that Barbour's group HELM was the money backer and that Raymounds group was the organizational backer. The article said that it was someone other than Barbour at HELM who was the "manager" for their group. I'd be more interested in the Partnership Agreement for HELM than I would be of the Partnership Agreement for GOP Marketers to see just who made the decisions in this deal.

[gratuitous]

9. Who did make the decisions?

I sure don't know, but wouldn't it be a useful exercise to investigate this, get a few people under oath, gather some evidence and testimony, and sort out the guilty from the innocent? I'd sure like to hear what Mr. Barbour has to say for himself. Under oath. That is, if he's not afraid of being struck by lightning should he touch a Bible.

[PRETZEL]

10. I agree.

I'm definately not saying that this shouldn't be explored. I just wanted to make the point that this wasn't (at least from what I've read so far) that unusual of a business deal in and of itself. The trial will ultimately find out if this partnership was formed legally for an illegal purpose. That being the case, if that is true, then we definately have Barbour sitting squarely in the thick of things.

[Neil Lisst]

11. Not surprised! He's been a thug for the right for 35 years.

[Janice325]

12. That pisses me off more than I'm already pissed.

Governor Blanco (D) of Louisiana stll keeps getting badmouthed about her handling of Katrina. :argh:

[Selatius]

13. I always figured my governor (Barbour) was a fucking crook

Now we have even more dirt on the bastard.

[Stinky The Clown]

14. "But .... but .... but .... I didn't know what my subordinates were doing"

Oh .... wait ... that was Ken Lay ...... or was it Jeff Skilling?

Et tu, Haley?

[myrna minx]

17. Don't forget Bolton's "I dunno" perjury session

in the House yesterday as well.

[Stinky The Clown]

18. They're all alike, aren't they? Here's their class picture

[marmar]

15. Massa Haley?

No surprise there. :evilfrown:

[librechik]

16. GO TPM

this is the kind of journalism we need

[Independent_Liberal]

19. I sure as hell ain't going to him for a haircut!

HAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!!!!


Sometimes I am too much!


:D

[KittyWampus]

20. WTF? This is indeed shaping up to be Bush's Watergate

[PegDAC]

21. Hmmmmmmm...

very interesting indeed!

[dusty64]

22. Porky going

down would be a bonus. :kick: